# factcheck - Thursday 14 January, 2021
# Advice
# Advice
This week, Health Mininister Stephen Donnelly denied the government had gone against public health advice.
# factcheck - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The video was posted online before Christmas and now has more than 1 million views.
# factcheck - Friday 8 January, 2021
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# Factcheck
A false claim on social media suggests that a Pfizer document said vaccine recipients should not have unprotected sex for 28 days after receiving their second dose.
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# Factcheck
A poster that falsely claims to have been published by the HSE is being shared on social media.
# factcheck - Monday 4 January, 2021
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# Factcheck
An image being shared on social media is actually of an Everton football fan attacked in 2019.
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# Factcheck
A claim on social media says that George Nkencho had 32 convictions, but this is false.
# factcheck - Tuesday 29 December, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim originated in a series of posts by Anti-Corruption Ireland last week.
# factcheck - Monday 28 December, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Quotes attributed to Dr Mike Yeadon are inaccurate.
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# Factcheck
The Northern Trust has said that claims of lies about hospital capacity in the North are “ridiculous”.
# factcheck - Wednesday 23 December, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The nurse has said her fainting was not linked to the vaccine, but to a health condition she has.
# Debunked
# Debunked
The photo was taken in 2018 when France won the World Cup.
# factcheck - Tuesday 22 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
The video, which has attracted hundreds of shares and likes on Facebook, makes a number of claims about PCR testing.
# factcheck - Monday 21 December, 2020
# Anti-vaxxers
# Anti-vaxxers
Ireland is seeing a lot of misinformation about vaccines right now – and there’s no sign of it stopping.
# factcheck - Friday 18 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
Deaths rose by 14.1% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.
# factcheck - Thursday 17 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
A post on social media has falsely claimed that the NHS confirmed no Covid-19 deaths occurred among people without a pre-existing condition.
# factcheck - Wednesday 16 December, 2020
# Recession
# Recession
The Taoiseach has suggested that the bank guarantee was an investment.
# factcheck - Friday 11 December, 2020
# Covid19 Facts
# Covid19 Facts
A tweet going viral raises the spectre of some vaccines causing lasting genetic change to our cells, but this is untrue.
# factcheck - Thursday 10 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
False claims have spread on social media about Covid-19 testing and vaccination.
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# Factcheck
Social media posts making the claim have been shared thousands of times in recent days.
# factcheck - Sunday 6 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
Let’s take a look at how trials for the Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines have involved older age groups.
# factcheck - Friday 4 December, 2020
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# Factcheck
The head of the UK regulator who approved the Pfizer vaccine said its progress was “totally dependent” on the “rolling review” approach it took.
# factcheck - Thursday 26 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
Staff from RTÉ did have a social gathering earlier this month – but this photo does not show it.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Posts on social media have wrongly claimed that PCR testing is inaccurate and produces a high rate of false positive results.
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# Factcheck
A number of different posts on Facebook with the same text have claimed that the assertion was made at a WHO briefing.
# factcheck - Monday 23 November, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that this is incorrect.
# factcheck - Friday 20 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
Despite what the misleading claim says, the Fluenz Tetra vaccine has been authorised since 2013.
# factcheck - Thursday 19 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
Guidance on mask-wearing in the German city of Düsseldorf has recently been updated, but the requirement to wear a mask has not been banned as claims suggest.
# factcheck - Sunday 15 November, 2020
# Covid19 Facts
# Covid19 Facts
The PCR test is globally recognised as the gold standard method for detecting the coronavirus.
# factcheck - Friday 13 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
None of the members of the board of Pieta House are paid for their work.
# factcheck - Thursday 12 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
The incorrect claim is being widely shared on social media.
# factcheck - Wednesday 11 November, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
This claim has been shared widely on Facebook recently.
# factcheck - Monday 2 November, 2020
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# Factcheck
A social media post claims older people have been given a higher dose of the vaccine as part of a “culling agenda”.
# factcheck - Tuesday 27 October, 2020
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# Factcheck
Posts containing this false claim have been shared on Facebook recently.
# factcheck - Friday 23 October, 2020
# Factfind
# Factfind
A TD said on RTÉ Radio One at the weekend: “We have stopped measuring suicide and self-harm in this country.”
# factcheck - Tuesday 20 October, 2020
# factcheck - Thursday 15 October, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The ad calls for an alternative approach to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
# factcheck - Friday 2 October, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The leaflet was distributed in the name of Anti-Corruption Ireland, an anti-government group.
# factcheck - Wednesday 30 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
The video on Twitter and Facebook accused Sinn Féin of being “two-faced and hypocritical”. But were the claims in it correct?
# factcheck - Tuesday 29 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
The photo has been shared on social media in recent days – but it was actually taken in England five years ago.
# factcheck - Wednesday 23 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
Several claims online say the store is to stop retail sales from next week.
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